What is Socrates Project Socrates is a collaborative

What is Socrates Project? Socrates is a collaborative program which is devised by the European Union in the field of education since January 1 st, 2000.

Participating Countries o 25 Member States of EU o AELE Countries : Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway o PAECO countries : Bulgaria and Romania o Turkey

Goals o Strengthening European identity in all levels ; facilitating easy access to the educational resources in Europe on the basis of principle of equal opportunity. o Furthering the education of the languages that are spoken in the EU; especially the least taught and least available ones. o Encouraging collaboration and circulation. Exchange programs between the institutions. Synchronising the training periods and facilitating recognition of the diplomas. o Developing and implementing innovative technologies in the development of pedagogic materials.

Actions o COMENIUS, covers primary and secondary education o ERASMUS, covers tertiary education o GRUNTVIG, covers adult education o LINGUA, deals with language education o MINERVA, distant education - (TICE)

For Students ü Working together with students from other European Countries. üBeing a part of multidisciplinary project team. ü Contributing to development of personal characteristics such as communication skills, creativity, adaptation skills. üImproving their foreign language learning capacity through the communication technologies. ü Cultural awareness and sensitivity. üIncreased motivation. ü Being a part of project from the very beginning till the end. üIncreasing the ability to master the mother tongue through creating documents and presentations.

For Educators and Formatters ü Working in a multidisciplinary team üConnecting with other educators from other European countries. ü Establishing lasting relationships and enabling cultural awareness. ü Sharing information, experience, best practice examples and resources. ü Developing capacity in learning foreign language and information technologies. üStrengthening the innovations in the field of education. ü Developing actions to support the struggling students.

§For Schools ü Innovation in education ü Action plans for those students who struggle ü Supporting education in social legal and citizenship issues ü Increased orientation trainings ü Supporting the image of the school in the process of relating to Europe ü Dealing with the school related problems in a European scale ü Improving the team dynamics of the teaching staff. ü Increased information exchange. ü Developing innovative solutions to the problems.

Our high school is a partner of Socrates project: o Minerva Project : Climate Change “clim@tic”

Climate Change Project o A 2 -year project that ends in December 2007 o Project goals: engaging students in scientific research, and increasing awareness in continuos development as well as climate change. o For the purposes of the project, students, teachers, investigators and researcher interact over a “Virtual Climate Laboratory” which enables them to establish a real collaboration in learning and research

Project Partners §INFOREF (Belgique: Liège) Initiatives pour une formation efficace §Fondation Polaire Internationale (Suisse: Genève) §Station Scientifique des Hautes Fagnes (Belgique: Université de Liège) Les établissements scolaires: o o o o En France: le Centre National de Formation de l’Enseignement Technique Privé CNFETP à Lille En Italie: PIXEL Associazione Agence d'Enseignement et de Formation basée à Florence En Belgique: le Centre Scolaire Sainte-Véronique et Marie-José à Liège Enseignement primaire et secondaire en immersion anglophone (certains cours de sciences et de mathématiques en anglais) En Grèce: le Lycée Léonin Franco-Hellénique à Athènes Enseignement primaire et secondaire où le français est enseigné comme langue vivante LV 1 En Pologne: le lycée ZESPÓŁ SZKÓŁ à Szczecin En Roumanie: le lycée Liceul Teoretic «Nichita Stanescu» de PLOIESTI En Turquie: Le Lycée Notre Dame de Sion et Le lycée Galatasaray Les partenaires externes Passerelle Science – Cité de l'Université de Genève CIFEN: Centre Interfacultaire de Formation des Enseignants, ULg

Phase 1: Establishing the research question o What is climate change ? o What is the role of research in understanding climate change? o What is my role in this issue both regionally and globally?

Phase 2: «Virtual Laboratory» o «Virtual Climate Laboratory» aims to provide students with answers to their questions. Students can approach to this problem effectively through the help of resources, researchers and trained professionals. o This laboratory is equipped with excellent material that are prepared by experts that would provide the students with variety of situational examples related to climate change. o For example: students may choose to approach to the topic as a journalist or a researcher. This laboratory provides them with tools to interview related professionals or enables them to conduct scientific research by giving them tools to experiment, develop hypotheses and test these. o If they wish, they may act as politicians and observe the results of their policies in this virtual laboratory.

Proposed activities o A cartoon that would help to understand the climate change, o A meteorology station, o A virtual application that would enable to identify the pollens and their relationship with the climate.

Cartoon: « Migration of the Ibanes» o Written by the International Foundation for the Poles o Enables to understand the climatic change better. o Demonstrates the impact of human activity on the environment and climate. o It is available only in French, German and English at the moment. ) o It will be active on the net from May 2006

Meteorology Station o Aims to establish an identical meteorology station in each participating school. o This stations will record the temperature, the density of sun rays, rain, velocity of the wind etc. o These data from all schools will be recorded on the virtual laboratory and be available to all. o These station will operate manually so that students can measure the parameters physically.

Project URL: www. climatic. org

Virtual Climate Laboratory q. Introduction q. Meteorology Station q. Mediotech q. Simulation q. Scientific research q. Activity Scenerios

Work Plan The project has been developed by a pilot commitee that consits of mebers from the participating countries. Meets three times a year. n n n October 2005 January 2006 May 2006 October 2006 January 2007 May 2007 Project Completion Deadline: October 2007 – December 2007

October 2005 – December 2005 First meeting of the pilot committee on 7 -8 October o Development of the internet site o Assessment of the situation in each participating country Thing we had to do till the end of November: o Identifying the scientists and the research centres which are working on climate change, o Deciding on the topics that we want to work with students, o Deciding on the necessary trainings for the next meeting, o Purchasing a meteorology station.

27 - 28 January 2006 Second committee meeting with the participation of approximately 40 teachers q Scientific and technologic preparation of the teachers in order to achieve the activities. q Training and teaching technologies on climate change ü How to set up a meteorology station and how to measure the parameters. ü How to make a pollen diagram. ü Alain Hubert’s conference on climate change. q Training will be given by the International Foundation for Poles in association with University of Liège and University of Geneva. Our task: We have to share the skills and the knowledge that we gained from the training with other teachers in our school.

November 2005 - May 2007 Deciding on the materials needed throughout the project duration. o Design process for the interactive cartoon which will be used in the educational activities of the International Foundation for Poles. o Preparation of the interactive virtual tools by Inforef. Our tasks: o Translating these tools into the languages of the participating countries. o Setting up the stations. o Developing educational multimedia material that are targeting primary and secondary school students.

Our Tasks Throughout the Project Duration. o Testing the activity scenarios at every stage of the development. o Evaluating the materials. o Publishing articles in the journals or websites of the participating associations. o Organising events such as conferences, seminars, exhibitions in order to promote the project.